There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Every thing to be true must become a religion.

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

The best revenge is to live well.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.